Tweaking Internet Speed in Windows Vista: OpenDNS

Posted by Maria 23 November, 2008 (11) Comment

Here is a very impressive trick to tweak Windows Vista’s Internet Speed. This method is very similar to what we discussed in our post titled how to increase Internet speed using host files. The other articles are also very relevant How to Turn On Your PC in Under 10 Seconds , How to Double Firefox Browsing Speed on Dialup Connection and especially How to Optimize Your Internet Connection to Get 100 % Bandwidth

I am also thankful to maria0maria for sharing this with me. I see considerable increase in my Internet speed when I use it in combination of other tricks to make my windows vista work faster. Article starts now…

Even with the FiOS (Fiber Optic Service) connection I still feel that my browsing experience is not that blazing fast. Have you ever felt the same with your internet connection as well? Follow this simple Windows hack to experience a faster, better and secure internet browsing.

If you’d like some technical backgrounds of why this hack will improve and secure your internet browsing experience then read this paragraph. I’m not going to go into too much details but here are the basics.

Most of the browsing bottlenecks happen when you make a request for a domain name and the Domain Name Servers (DNS Servers) are too busy to not quickly respond back to your request to resolve the domain name to an IP address. No matter how much speed your ISP claims you’ll face this bottleneck if you rely on the age-old DNS Servers.

OpenDNS is a free Domain Name Service that does more than just resolve the domain names for you. Once registered (free and simple registration) you get quite a lot of control on how you manage your web browsing experience. Here are some of cool features of Open DNS that might convince you to make the switch (at least these made me to switch and I don’t regret at all)

 

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November 23, 2008

Thanks for promoting my original article at DemoGeek.com. I’m glad that you liked it. I would really appreciate if you can please make the credit a little bolder.

Thanks again.

DemoGeeks last blog post..Simple Windows hack for a faster and safer web browsing

Posted by DemoGeek
September 15, 2009

thanks for the trick trying it right now… lets hope for the best

Posted by amrit
September 25, 2009

its just a stupid websitw i had ever seen, u trying to sell ur product, actually what i need how to hack the net speed

Posted by datse
September 26, 2009

@datse
I am not trying to sell anything here… Its an open source project. Free for all to use. It is made possible by donations of time and money by thousands of unknown people… It is the future of web

If you can’t understand what OpenDNS site is all about.. its your fault.. the site is ok an i am enjoying better speeds due to it

Posted by Maria
November 13, 2009

my internet speed literally doubled after that. and tbh, i thought it was bull to start off wid

Posted by dijj
December 17, 2009

I just added the DNS addresses to my IPv4 properties and noticed an immediate internet speed boost! When accessing my Verizon netmail via Internet Explorer it would sometimes take up to 30 seconds to either delete an email, or to just browse from one email message to the next. This DNS fix took care of the problem in short order. My internet browsing is now quick, fast, and painless! Thanks a million for posting this excellent fix!

Posted by Mark
December 18, 2009

I’m glad that you were able to fix the issue.

Posted by noor
January 7, 2010

wow i was impressed!

Posted by john
January 12, 2010

if u wanna tweak ur internet connection, try dsl speed, it boosts ur online speed somehow

Posted by kinary
January 30, 2010

I tried Open dns and it did not speed up my internet connection it made it somewhat slower. There are better methods to speed up your internet connections by modifying the registry.Such as maximizing connections and reducing

Posted by freath
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